Issue 121 March 2009
The Art of the Matter
How art can weave into life and vice versa
Instructions on Correct Conduct
A specially commissioned project
Think Rich
The many ways of owning an image
Spare Me!
Sometimes no art is better than more art
Another Story of Art
What happens when images float free from the text they illustrate?
Shoot First
An Australian photography festival highlights the relevance of photojournalism at a time when the medium is in crisis
The Other Half
Despite their often trailblazing contributions to the art world, female gallerists have historically been under-recognised. A new book seeks to make amends
Salon to Biennial: Exhibitions That Made Art History, Volume 1: 1863–1959
Bruce Altshuler et al. (eds.) (Phaidon, London and New York, 2008)
Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before
Michael Fried (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2008)
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
Geoff Dyer (Canongate, Edinburgh, 2009)
The Crying Light
Antony and the Johnsons (Rough Trade, 2009)
Laulu Laakson Kukista
Paavoharju (Fonal, 2008)
To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story
(RCA Legacy, 2008)
Life in Film: Emily Wardill
In an ongoing series, frieze asks artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice
A Serious Business
What does it mean to be a professional artist?
A Fraction of the Whole
For the past 40 years, the elusive artist David Hammons has explored race, creativity and politics – without gallery representation
Life Work
Working in the field of art makes it very difficult to draw a line between a professional and private life. What’s the best way forward?
Who do You Think You’re Talking To?
Boris Groys in conversation with Brian Dillon
Deborah Ligorio
Sedimentation and submersion; the effects of images on the past, the present and the future
Melvin Moti
Dreams, songbirds and slimming; the imaginative and temporal possibilities of reduction
Sheela Gowda
Blood, thread and cow dung; gender politics, myth and mysticism
Camera Obscura
What are the reasons for television’s uneasy relationship to art?
Use & Value
Innovative and influential Swiss designer and artist Janette Laverrière turns 100 this year. She talked to Vivian Rehberg in Paris about politics, being a woman, utility, mirrors and her collaborations with artist Nairy Baghramian
Franz Ackermann
Franz Ackermann is an artist living and working in Berlin and Karlsruhe in Germany. He is currently participating in the Tate Triennial in London and will have a solo show at Kunstmuseum Bonn in December 2009.
Periferic Biennial 8
Various venues, Iaşi, Romania
By Alina Şerban
Raffi Kalenderian
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
By Burkhard Meltzer
Ugo Rondinone
Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
By Alessandro Rabottini
Indian Highway
Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
By Devika Singh
Universal Archive
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
By Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna
2008 California Biennial
Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
By Andrew Berardini
Sarah Lucas
Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
By Dan Fox
John Lautner
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
By Natalie Haddad
Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?
Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
By Martin Herbert
Peter Robinson
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
By Justin Paton
Steve Reinke
LUX, London, UK
By Melissa Gronlund
Ian Wallace
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen; Witte de With; Kunsthalle Zurich, Dusseldorf, Germany / Rotterdam, The Netherlands / Zurich, Switzerland
By Catrin Lorch
Tara Donovan
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
By Ara H. Merjian
Thomas Zipp
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
By Conor Carville
Lutz Bacher
Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, St Louis, USA
By Benjamin Carlson
The Impossible Prison
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
By Jonathan Griffin
Dorit Margreiter
Galerie STAMPA, Basel, Switzerland
By Yvonne Volkart
Ours
Parsons The New School of Art and Design, New York, USA
By Jenni Sorkin
Matthew Noel-Tod
Picture This, Bristol, UK
By Mia Jankowicz
The Marfa Sessions
Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas, USA
By Emily Liebert
Matthew Day Jackson
Peter Blum and Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, USA
By Melissa Ragona
Carlos Cruz-Díez
Americas Society, New York, USA
By Morgan Falconer
Smadar Dreyfus
Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
By Doreen Mende
Ian Burns
Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland
By Tim Stott
Katja Strunz
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
By Kirsty Bell
Jacob Feige
Lombard-Fried Projects, New York, USA
By Christopher Bedford
Le Corbusier
The Crypt, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool, UK
By Brian Dillon
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